Most Podern Art: I knew it was impossible when I started

I knew it was impossible when I started. But it got me through the last 18 months. And I needed that. I'm going to try again, in ernest this year. I think it's still impossible, but not improbable that I can ultimately succeed in listening to, reacting and subjectively ranking all the music of a given year.

It will have to be attempted on an every other year basis, this much I am still convinced.

I have given a lot of thought to the structure of 2016's journey.

Guidelines that will be carried over:

1) If I can't find the music on Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp or Soundcloud, I will not spend any energy tracking it down.
2) The fewer hits a band has on youtube/spotify the more preference they get in my ranking system, once I'm "hooked".

New Guidelines:

3) I will be more liberal with the skip-10-seconds button

4) I will only allow an album to hook me within the first 3 songs instead of 5

5) I will be less strict regarding listening to the entire album once hooked.

As with last year I will be attempting to as objectively as possible observe my subjective reactions to the various music I encounter throughout 2016. I will then attempt to document as well as I can, which of that music I "liked" the most. I will attempt to put a list of less than 100 albums together by the end of the following year complete with boring, self-analytical, bullshit criticism of other people's art that I do, apparently, have the audacity to rank in terms of my own personal self-satisfaction.

I am not a writer or blogger by passion or intent, so I have no sense of routine or drive that involves making sure I finish this series. Not that I am expecting any mass uprising at the sudden and effective end of 2014's journey. WTH do you have against run on sentences as long as they logically add up to a complete thought?

I did listen to some music in 2015 and have a few of my favorite songs saved to a spotify playlist. Check it out HERE!

For the morbidly curious, here is what was left of 2014 that I never got around to writing about. I've linked to each album where possible. Everyone have a safe and happy New Year!

41. Temples - Sun Structues

*40. Kid Cudi - Satellite flight: The Journey to The Mother Moon

*39. Ema - The future's Void

38. Maximo Park - Too Much Information

37. Hardworking Americans - Hardworking Americans

*36. The New Medicants - Into the Lime

35. Christina Perri - Head or Heart

34. Kevin Seconds - Off Stockton

33. Dell The Funky Homosapien - Iller Then Most

32. Mogwai - Rave Tapes

31. Dave Barnes - Golden Days

30. Dum Dum Girls - Too True